Remarkable new images have emerged of an uncontacted tribal community in the Brazilian Amazon which environmentalists fear could be destroyed by outside influences.

Learning to drive can be hard, but learning it in a new language is almost impossible. But that's changing for refugees in Hamilton. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

On New Year's Day in 1985, a Boeing 727 crashed into the side of a South American mountain with 29 people on board - but no one knows why.

Andrew Parsons beds down in the only hotel on the Argentinian side of the famous Iguazu Falls.

Watch NZH Local Focus: The largest container ship to enter a New Zealand port, the MV Aotea Maersk, has made its maiden visit to Tauranga.

Topsy-turvy weather in Brazil is pushing up the cost of commodities in your breakfast drink.

A year and a half after being led out of the forest and receiving health care, two women have abandoned village life for the forest they know.

An open mind is all you need to see the world, writes Leila George.

Derek Cheng rejoices in the spectacular scenery of Nahuel Huapi National Park.

The Mocona Falls almost seems to defy logic.

A dire hotel accommodation shortage has opened the city's poorest favelas to tourists.

United States efforts on the Zika virus have been so focused on prevention, almost no firm plans have been made for the care of the nation's first dozen Zika babies.

Inhotim is an open-air art gallery in the midst of about 2000ha of botanic gardens, a two-hour drive from Belo Horizonte, a two-hour flight from Rio.

This spot in Venezuela is struck by more lightning than anywhere else in the world, creating spectacular electric storms. What on Earth is going on?

COMMENT: Polynesian communities will be hopelessly under-represented in the New Zealand Olympic team in Brazil. Dylan Cleaver explains why.

Amid shortages and after 50 years of living in retail darkness due, the light has snapped on for many Cubans.

Two new cave paintings have been discovered near the Machu Picchu ruins in Peru.

COMMENT: With less than a month to go until Rio, serious concerns have been raised about the safety of tourists and teams arriving in the city.

With the Olympics only a month away, the spotlight is on Brazil as it prepares for half a million tourists from around the world to arrive.

While Uruguay doesn't have big-ticket tourist attractions like Iguazu Falls and Christ the Redeemer, it definitely deserves to be a tourist destination in its own right.

Auckland Zoo needs your help to name two new arrivals - a pair of male capybara pups.

Peru is one of those places you go to once and fall head over heels in love. It will surprise you, enchant you and have you craving for more.

What's in the basement of his hotel? Nicholas Jones knows, but will he be allowed to go there?

It's millions of years old, weighs in at an estimated 10 million tonnes, is more than 200m high and has a curious history.

Latin America is Uber's fastest-growing region.

They are the bucket-list destinations tourists are loving to death. Some of these sites have been shut down, while for others the risk lingers.

There's a 10 per cent chance of sunshine in Colombia's Chingaza National Park.

A vast roll call of exotic critters entertain Nicholas Jones in the world's biggest wetland

South America Giant tortoises, grunts, or blue-footed boobys - Lydia Jenkin doesn't quite know which Galapagos curiosity to look at first